Iluvblue wrote:You can also sign the agreement and play travel. If you leave mid-season, don't act surprised if you are scorned or if your manager doesn't sign your agreement releasing you to your new team that you solicited against the rules you signed that you would abide by...teach your kid to be a liar and a cheat...it is your unaliable right as a parent. Just don't complain about it.
Once a player is redlined, a release does nothing anyway. How many kids sign these agreements expecting certain things from a coach/manager. Then after a few months they figure out that the team is unorganized, dysfunctional, or that they have been flat out lied to? But hey, you signed that agreement, so you better teach your kid to suck it up.
A Liar and a cheat? Wow Sam, sounds to me like you had this happen a few times too many to you?? NO? if not, why so angry about this issue.
You dont need player agreements if you do things the right way. If players want out, bye bye and good luck.
If you have players wanting off your team every season, or multiple players in one season, GO LOOK IN THE MIRROR. The person looking back at you is the reason people want out. Then try to figure out what you are doing wrong and make some changes.
I remember listening to a certain Gold coach around these parts telling his parents after the first tournament, " If you want out, please dont start a mutiny. Just jump ship, we will continue on without you!"
I like that quote.
Read the title of the post...it doesn't talk about leaving after redlining...it says "mid season."
The parents in SoCal and the unethical coaches caused the need for the player agreement in SoCal....it's too bad SoCal ASA refuses to enforce their terms....although they will force it over the refusal to turn in a uniform or if money is owed to the team losing the player. In a perfect world, we wouldn't need contracts or agreements for anything....the fact is that the system and its moving parts are not perfect and they break quite often.
I've never had much of a problem in this area, but I did protest to SoCal ASA over a kid leaving another team when SoCal ASA wouldn't enforce the player agreement. The player was blatantly recruited by the gaining team and helped the team qualify for ASA Nationals. It wasn't fair to the team that lost the player, nor was it fair to the teams that had to play the team that gained this player.
I'm not angry....I'm just stating the obvious. You sign an agreement stating what you will do and you CHOOSE not to do it, you are a liar and a cheat. Its pretty simple.
